Comments on: Will there be a Tag 2.0? http://blog.musmo.com/2007/05/17/will-there-be-a-tag-20/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:46:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Lorelle http://blog.musmo.com/2007/05/17/will-there-be-a-tag-20/#comment-3 Lorelle Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:27:46 +0000 http://dev.musmo.com/index.php/2007/05/17/will-there-be-a-tag-20/#comment-3 You are right in many of your points. A revisit to tag technology as well as structure and taxonomy is desperately needed. I'll be talking about this a lot as it gets closer to release on WordPress, but I think we need to revamp the whole concept of tags and categories to really clean them up IN SEARCH SERVICES. I think we are doing it right on our blogs, though messy, but the search services which can take advantage of tagging stink. They've lost their value, and maybe their way. Technorati, now, searches whole content for "tags" which are keywords not necessarily the tags for search results. Makes it no different from a search engine. And the abuse of tags must be battled. I'm sick of finding totally unrelated results in tag searches - oh, the tag is there, but it's no different than the hidden keywords of old for spamming search engines. A change needs to happen soon. You are right in many of your points. A revisit to tag technology as well as structure and taxonomy is desperately needed. I’ll be talking about this a lot as it gets closer to release on WordPress, but I think we need to revamp the whole concept of tags and categories to really clean them up IN SEARCH SERVICES. I think we are doing it right on our blogs, though messy, but the search services which can take advantage of tagging stink. They’ve lost their value, and maybe their way.

Technorati, now, searches whole content for “tags” which are keywords not necessarily the tags for search results. Makes it no different from a search engine. And the abuse of tags must be battled. I’m sick of finding totally unrelated results in tag searches - oh, the tag is there, but it’s no different than the hidden keywords of old for spamming search engines.

A change needs to happen soon.

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